1. You deserve all the glory and merit, which no one denies
Rather, praise belongs to you, while the ungrateful do not praise

2. I see the nobility of character as a gift
With which Allah makes miserable whom He wills and brings happiness to whom He wills

3. The star of religion has been singled out with a conduct
In which beautiful mention comes and is composed

4. Beauty and beautification, might and attainment
Merit and bestowal, glory and firmness

5. Prudence and resolve, God-consciousness and chastity
Character and morals, branch and firmly rooted

6. That which this group comprises, which you see
And hear about, except for the predetermined fate

7. Noble one, if your age ever devised the like of him
You would have named it the creation of what does not exist

8. I bid farewell to the noble household after him
So I said: Will there ever be days of return for me?

9. Will I ever meet the full moon of darkness risen from you
While his sons are in the ascending constellation of your good fortune, most fortunate?

10. It was not many days before I saw him
And the promise of the Exalted remains as I had hoped

11. So I said to it: O abode, may the arrival
Of your courts be congratulated, set ablaze by his lights

12. I rejoiced at his coming as though his arrival
Were a departure of old age or renewing youth

13. And I congratulated the good expectation from you of the Benefactor
For whom the great sermons prostrate and bow down